{"product_id":"heart-the-lover","title":"Heart the Lover","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome love stories wait decades to be told. Lily King's narrator returns to her final year of college, when two best friends pulled her into their world and into a charged triangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterary novel; an instant New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction, according to the publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnected to King's earlier novel Writers \u0026amp; Lovers, according to the publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 256 pages, Grove Press (2025)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her last year of college, the narrator meets Sam and Yash, best friends and standout students in her seventeenth-century literature class, who are living in the house of a professor away on sabbatical. They nickname her Jordan, and through raucous card games, quick talk and shared ambition she finds friendship, romance and a new confidence in her own mind, until she lands inside a three-way attachment. Decades on, an unannounced visit and some unexpected news send her back to the choices she made then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel belongs to literary fiction about first love, friendship and ambition, and readers of Writers \u0026amp; Lovers will find its connecting thread. King sets a campus romance against the longer view of the life that followed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLily King has written six novels, including Writers \u0026amp; Lovers and Euphoria, and the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter, and she is a New York Times bestselling author. According to her publisher, her honors include the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, the Maine Book Award and a Whiting Award, and her books appear in thirty-two languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854480490645,"sku":"NEW-ING-HB-0802165176","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_d3735624-b283-4ae0-8315-4ecf40c03931.jpg?v=1787904147","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/heart-the-lover","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}